Top 100 Mary Baker Eddy Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Divine love always has met and always will meet every human need.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

2. “The time for thinkers has come.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

3. “Every luminary in the constellation of human greatness, like the stars, comes out in the darkness to shine with the reflected light of God.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

4. “God is incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, life, Truth, Love.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

5. “To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, today is big with blessings.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

6. “To live and let live, without clamor for distinction or recognition; to wait on divine love; to write truth first on the tablet of one’s own heart – this is the sanity and perfection of living, and my human ideal.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

7. “No power can withstand divine Love.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

8. “Reject hatred without hating.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

9. “True prayer is not asking God for love; it is learning to love, and to include all mankind in one affection.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

10. “God gives you His spiritual ideas, and in turn, they give you daily supplies. Never ask for tomorrow: it is enough that divine Love is an ever-present help; and if you wait, never doubting, you will have all you need every moment.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

11. “When angels visit us, we do not hear the rustle of wings, nor feel the feathery touch of the breast of a dove; but we know their presence by the love they create in our hearts.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

12. “Emerge gently from matter into Spirit.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

13. “There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind, and its infinite manifestation, for God is All in All. Spirit is immortal Truth; Matter is mortal error.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

14. “Sorrow has its reward. It never leaves us where it found us.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

15. “Good thoughts are an impervious armor; clad therewith you are completely shielded from the attacks of error of every sort. And not only yourselves are safe, but all whom your thoughts rest upon are thereby benefited.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

16. “I love to observe Christmas in quietude, humility, benevolence, charity, letting good will towards man, eloquent silence, prayer, and praise express my conception of Truth’s appearing.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

17. “Right motives give pinions to thought, and strength and freedom to speech and action.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

18. “Truth is immortal; error is mortal.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

19. “Love inspires, illummines, designates and leads the way.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

20. “Your birthday is a special day, May it bring you love and cheer It gives a chance for me to say, Happy birthday every year.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

21. “Step by step will those who trust Him find that ‘God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.’”

— Mary Baker Eddy

22. “Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

23. “To love and to be loved, one must do good to others. The inevitable condition whereby to become blessed, is to bless others.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

24. “There is too much animal courage in society and not sufficient moral courage.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

25. “You embrace your body in your thought, and you should delineate upon it thoughts of health, not of sickness.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

26. “What we most need is the prayer of fervent desire for growth in grace, expressed in patience, meekness, love, and good deeds.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

27. “The devotion of thought to an honest achievement makes the achievement possible. Exceptions only confirm this rule, proving that failure is occasioned by a too feeble faith.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

28. “It requires courage to utter truth; for the higher Truth lifts her voice, the louder will error scream, until its inarticulate sound is forever silenced in oblivion.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

29. “Christian Science explains all cause and effect as mental, not physical.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

30. “Angels are pure thoughts from God, winged with Truth and Love.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

31. “The recipe for beauty is to have less illusion and more Soul, to retreat from the belief of pain or pleasure in the body into the unchanging calm and glorious freedom of spiritual harmony.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

32. “We should master fear, instead of cultivating it.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

33. “Sickness is a belief, which must be annihilated by the divine Mind.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

34. “Remember, thou canst be brought into no condition, be it ever so severe, where Love has not been before thee and where its tender lesson is not awaiting thee. Therefore despair not nor murmur, for that which seeketh to save, to heal, and to deliver, will guide thee, if thou seekest this guidance.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

35. “A little more grace, a motive made pure, a few truths tenderly told, a heart softened, a character subdued, a life consecrated, would restore the right action of the mental mechanism, and make manifest the movement of body and soul in accord with God.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

36. “When the heart speaks, however simple the words, its language is always acceptable to those who have hearts.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

37. “Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind; nor can the material senses bear reliable testimony on the subject of health.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

38. “Spirit, God, gathers unformed thoughts into their proper channels, and unfolds these thoughts, even as He opens the petals of a holy purpose in order that the purpose may appear.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

39. “Hold thought steadfastly to the enduring, the good, and the true, and you will bring these into your experience proportionately to their occupancy of your thoughts.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

40. “Home is the dearest spot on earth, and it should be the centre, but not the boundary, of the affections.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

41. “If materialistic knowledge is power, it is not wisdom. It is but a blind force.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

42. “The prayer that reforms the sinner and heals the sick is an absolute faith that all things are possible to God...”

— Mary Baker Eddy

43. “Rushing around smartly is no proof of accomplishing much.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

44. “Man and woman as coexistent and eternal with God forever reflect, in glorified quality, the infinite Father-Mother God.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

45. “Love enriches the nature, enlarging, purifying, and elevating it.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

46. “A wrong motive involves defeat.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

47. “Hypocrisy is fatal to religion.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

48. “Complaint is poverty.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

49. “Spiritual teaching must always be by symbols.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

50. “The rich in spirit help the poor in one grand brotherhood, all having the same Principle, or Father; and blessed is that man who seeth his brother’s need and supplieth it, seeking his own in another’s good.”

— Mary Baker Eddy